Scientists may be closing in on highly magnetized neutron stars or "magnetars" as the solution to the fast radio burst mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever discovered through gravitational lensing. This breakthrough provides significant ...

The Gemini Observatory has released the first color image of what astronomers are calling the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object is what is known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB) ...

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